hanging the stockings...

Our Stockings are exceptionally large...

Truly they are the largest stockings I've yet to see in use within my friend group.

I made these 2 when hubby and I were in University and just engaged.

Can you believe he'd never had a stocking?!

Crazy!

Mine is the red and his is the green.

Quite traditional really.

Used the other side of the fabric for the cuff.

I didn't have a lot of extra money and I was just so pleased with the design.

Hubby helped make them.

They are 1 foot across and over 2 feet long.

We used to only fill our stockings as gifts to one another.

We had no price range--if it could fit in the stocking you could buy it!

When Pumpkin came along she was 1 on her first real Christmas so I let her pick from a bunch of fabrics at the store.

Yes I started her fabric love early.

She chose this sparkly pointsettia print but I wanted to add to it.

I found this great feather trim that matched perfectly!

She petted her stocking for half an hour after I finished making it :)

Then our little man showed up.

Pumpkin chose the fabric for his stocking too.

I wanted trim but wanted it to be boyish.

Since his fabric didn't have any glitz to it,

I thought some sparkly sequin trim was in order.

So now, our stockings are done.

When I looked around blog land I noticed all these great stocking posts and wished I could make another.

Well, next Christmas I will have a new stocking post,

because in July we will welcome stocking # 5 to the roost of stockings!